We have no news whatever, except some damage reported at
Charleston, done to two monitors yesterday. The bombardment has assumed no new
phase.
A letter from Gen. J. E. Johnston, Meridian, Miss.,
indicates that the Secretary has been writing him and saying that he was
responsible for the outrages of the impressing agents in his department. Gen.
J. disclaims the responsibility, inasmuch as the agents referred to act under
orders from the Commissary-General or Secretary of War.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
100
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